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26 years ago Valerie Fleming fell in love with a handsome, romantic young Egyptian. Yesterday she saw him convicted of inciting murder and racial hatred. Here she tells her remarkable story of her life with Abu Hamza

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It is not the image most of us have of the man who has become infamous not only for the hook he has in place of an arm, but his fundamentalist Islamic zealotry.

But according to Valerie Fleming, the former wife of Abu Hamza, the man she met and later married changed in just four years from a romantic, gentle, 22-year-old Westernised student who was constantly being courted by girls, into a deeply religious fanatic.

It also seems that it may have been Fleming, a young single mother when she first kissed